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Issue 2, 2017

Transforming medical technology businesses to create value...

There is significant value to be captured with digital products and services in the healthcare industry. However, existing medical technology companies going digital will require major business and operational model changes.

Healthcare & life sciences
Digital transformation & analytics

Issue 2, 2017

Digitalization can make energy more affordable

An interview with Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO, Total

Oil & gas
Digital transformation & analytics

Issue 2, 2017

The “human-to-technology” language challenge

It is often said that within every business is a technology business, with software central to enterprise success. However, translating ideas into working software is not easy. Looking at typical business-to-technology language problems, this article shows how to overcome them through...

Embrace the shadow

Shadow IT, systems built and used by business units without approval from the IT function, are now pervasive.

Digital transformation & analytics, Information management

Issue 2, 2017

Four key questions to consider for successful digital...

The majority of “analog-native” companies are struggling to become digitally mature enough to compete with “digital-native” rivals. How can they adapt strategies, business models, organizational structures and capabilities to remain competitive and relevant?

Integrating lean principles into digital transformation

With the advent of digital, many organizations are looking to move away from lean management, in search of more radical performance gains.

Digital transformation & analytics, Operations management

Issue 1, 2017

Interview with Mattar Al Tayer, Director general &...

As Chairman for RTA, how would you describe the urban mobility sector in Dubai?

Travel & transportation

Issue 1, 2017

Urban mobility – Learnings from the Middle East

The Middle East may have been late to urbanization, but this has provided a unique opportunity to shape its urban-mobility strategies. Rather than adopting a piecemeal approach, leaders such as Dubai are following an ecosystem model that addresses mobility holistically.

Travel & transportation

Issue 1, 2017

Agility in managing electricity grids: The case for...

The rise in renewable energy has created unprecedented challenges for the planning and operation of an electricity grid that was built on the assumption of power being provided predominantly by large, centralized generation sources and consumed as soon as it is produced.

Utilities & alternative energy

Issue 1, 2017

Logistics 4.0 – Facing digitalization- driven disruption

At a time of market transformation, legacy logistics players (LLPs) risk being held back by the weight of their past, with static organizations, old IT systems, and complex processes preventing them from competing.